Crisis management is an inherent part of the incident response process. Not every incident escalates into a crisis, but every crisis is an incident.
As with incident response and business continuity, crisis management activities must be arranged in advance, so the response team knows what to do, who is in charge and who to contact.
There is no better way to get ready than training the crisis response team and putting it through realistic simulation exercises.
Crisis simulator
Train under pressure in a dedicated crisis simulator
For organisations that want more than a discussion-based tabletop, exercises can be run in a purpose-built crisis simulator that recreates the rhythm and pressure of a live incident — without touching production systems.
Participants receive realistic injects, take time-boxed decisions and see the situation evolve in response, while exercise control observes escalation, communication and decision-making.
- Live scenario timeline with structured injects and complications
- Role-based views for the crisis cell, technical teams and executives
- Decision log and evidence capture to support the hot debrief
- Exercise dashboards that keep control, observers and players aligned
Scenario control
Live timeline and injects
Release events, media pressure and stakeholder calls at exactly the right moment.
Player view
One shared operational picture
Teams see the situation, the objectives and the decisions they need to take next.
Decision log
Every decision captured
What was decided, by whom and when — ready for the structured debrief.
After action
Evidence for improvement
Observations and timings feed directly into findings and corrective actions.
Formats available
- Crisis leadership workshops for crisis managers and their deputies
- Scenario-based tabletop exercises, from cyber attack and ransomware to physical disruption — facilitated on paper or inside a dedicated crisis simulator
- Cyber crisis management and incident response training for technical and executive teams
- Exercise design, facilitation, control and observation, with a structured hot debrief
- Post-exercise report with findings, corrective actions and an improvement roadmap
Designed and delivered exercises for AstraZeneca, Sky UK, Arup and HorizonScan, including cyber crisis simulations attended by CISO, CTO and SOC leadership.